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A. J. GA-MMEYER. BICYCLE: SHOE.

No. 599,491 Patented Feb. 22, 1898.

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ALFRED J. CAHMEYER, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

BlCYCLE SHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,491, dated February 22, 1898.

Application filed June 8, 1897- Serial No. 639,817. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED J. CAMMEYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bicycleshoes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce an improved bicycle-shoe which will be eX- ceedingly comfortable to the feet of the wearer and readily adjustable to various formations of the feet and ankles; and the improvements consist of cutting out the instep and novel means for holding the shoe to the foot, and I accomplish the said object by means of the mechanism shown in the accompanying drawing, in which is shown a side view in elevation of my improved bicycle-shoe, and in which- A represents the sole, B the heel, C the vamp, and D the foothold, of my improved bicycleshoe, which is formed by cutting out the vamp, as shown. This vamp is of novel and useful formation, as will be hereinafter more specifically described. This novel and useful formation consists of cutting out the instep of the vamp in such a manner as to form what I call a foothold D therein. I call this a foothold because it holds the foot in the shoe in equal bearing. The top of this foothold forms a strap 1, the ends of which are punctured with a sufficient number of round perforations 1 and 2 to engage the tongues of the buckles 3 on each side of the shoe. These buckles are secured to lugs 4, which in turn are secured to the outside of the shoe and stitched through its counter. In the lugs 4 there are sockets formed by slitting the lugs transversely to conform to the shape and size of the ends of the strap 1, which are shoved into said sockets when the shoe is secured to the foot of the wearer. The raw edges caused by the cutting out of the vamp may be bound with tape or other suitable material.

I do not show the other constituent parts of my improved bicycle-shoe herein, for the reason that they are of ordinary construction and consist of a counter, sock-lining, insoles, doc.

It will readily be seen that the construction of my improved shoe as herein described abolishes the necessity of using buttons, eyelets, strings, hooks, slits, and scams, and maintains equal bearing over the whole of the foot and shoe. In other words, the slightest pull on the strap 1 to engage the buckle in the lug will result in a simultaneous and equal distribution of bearing over the ankle, instep, heel,and ball of the foot,and that in addition to the comfort afforded the wearer and absolute perfection in fit, perfect and. much-needed ventilation is secured and that when the foothold is once adjusted to suit the foot of the wearer of this shoe thereafter but one end of the strap 1 need be engaged or disengaged in removing or replacing the shoe upon the foot.

These shoes may be made of leather or canvas and with rubber or cork soles, or combinations of these and other materials, and are capable of many modifications without departing from the scope of the invention, notably the following: The foothold and strap may be of elastic material and reinforced for strength, or it may be made separate and at tached to any shoe.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a shoe a vamp partially cut away and a tongue extending from the center of such cut-away portion, adapted to be detaohably secured to the instep portion of the vamp of the shoe for the purposes specified.

2. In a shoe, avamp partially cut away and an integral bifurcated instep-strap extending from the center of such cut-away portion and adapted to be detachably secured to the instep portion of the vamp of the shoe, for the purposes specified.

3. A vamp cut away near its center, and provided with an integral fastening-strap extending from the center of such cutaway portion, for the purposes specified.

4-. In a shoe, the combination with a vamp cut away at its center, of asecuring or instep strap of less width than the cut-away portion of the vamp, said strap being integral with the vamp in the center of said cut-away portion for the purposes specified.

5. .In a shoe, the combination with the counter, a buckle and strap-loop secured on each side of the same, of a vamp having a cutaway portion on each side of its center, an instep-strap formed by the uncut central per tion, the end of the instep-strap being split vamp between the said cut-away portions for or formed into two ends adapted to engage the purposes specified. the said buckles. 7 1

6. In a shoe, the upper cut in one piece and ALFRED GAMMEX 5 cutaway on each side of the center of the Witnesses:

Vamp portion, thereby forming an integral LOUIS M. HART, instep-strap extending from the center of the ROBERT 0. WHEELER. 

